Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom. Birth rates have now reached ...

The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

India's demographic transition reveals declining birth and death rates, but disparities persist between urban and rural areas.

This article was originally published in The 19th. Half of Americans think we should be at least somewhat worried about the impact of falling birth rates on society, according to the 2025 19th ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the "fertilization president" during Women's History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but it has been in near-constant decline ever since. Sixty years on, it is now only around 2.2. In ...

Rather than an exploding overpopulation bomb, the world faces an economic and social implosion due to lacking supports to ...